Sault Naturopath

Prescription drugs can often deplete essential nutrients in your body, either by interfering with the nutrient’s absorption or increasing its elimination from your body.  In future blog posts I hope to cover some of the most common pharmaceuticals and the depletions they induce, however I thought I would begin with one that most people have used at least once in their life: antibiotics.

The following are nutrients depleted by antibiotics:

Carnitine Cephalosporin, cefditoren, pivampicillin, and sulfadiazine may all reduce carnitine.

Folic acid Antibiotics, such as chloramphenicol and cycloserine, may cause an imbalance in normal gastrointestinal (GI) flora, resulting in an interference with the absorption of folic acid.  Read more...

Are you at a point where you just don’t feel like exercising? Are you irritable and sleepy and feel like you don’t have the energy to exercise? It could be due to inflammation in your body.

Think back to the last time you had a cold or flu. Were the feelings similar? Some of the most common symptoms we experience when we get a cold or flu are irritability and drowsiness. This is due to the immune reaction our body develops in response to an infection. Inflammation plays a key part in that immune response.  Read more...

Throbbing, splitting, pounding, vice grip-like pressure. Headaches are plain painful.

Headaches can be acute or chronic and the diagnostic criteria associated with headaches is quite extensive. Some of the most common types include migraines, tension, cluster and sinus headaches. But what are the reasons why you experience chronic headaches? Once you know the reason you can work towards preventing them from occurring in the first place. Here are ten of the most common reasons why you get headaches:  Read more...

1. Liver Congestion In general, conventional medicine does not recognize any link between liver function and headaches. However, Traditional Chinese medicine has long recognized a connection and differentiated diagnoses based upon how the liver is affected.